Storyological 2.09 - STORY WITH A HOLE

In which we discuss "Hey Come On Out" by Shinichi Hoshi and "Bring Your Own Spoon" by Saad Hossain. Along with, among other things. Emotional baggage, Grayson Perry, and that old song hope.

In which we discuss,

1. "He—y Come On Out!" by Shinichi Hoshi, The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories, 1989. (orig. F&SF, 1978).

2. "Bring Your Own Spoon" by Saad Hossain, The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories, 2017.

along with, among other things...

Shinichi Hoshi

The Hoshi Library
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Obituary in The Independent

Saad Hossain

The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories
Interview with Bookslut
“‘Escape from Baghdad’ is the ‘Slaughterhouse Five of the Iraq War”

Stories with a hole

Pandora’s box
Doctor Who’s crack in the wall
Bag of holding
That one episode of Angel, “Hole in the World”

A nonchalant sort of tone

Kij Johnson, Storyological here in Episode 1.24: IT'S NOT ABOUT ZEB.
Haruki Murakami, "An Everyman for our Times."
Judy Budnitz, discussed on Storyological here in Episode 1.21: THE BOURNE LAMPSHADE.
Kelly Link, discussed on Storyological here in Episode 1.15: FOR A MINUTE THERE.

Other bits of Storyological Past

That one episode where we discussed “Pockets” by Amal El-Mohtar, Episode 1.06: LATER EVERYTHING
That one interview we did with Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Japanese Folk Tales

Such as these

Also

Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man
Ted Chiang, “Tower of Babylon”
The Bystander Effect

Also. Also.

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